Business building strategies; 5 Powerful Mind Success Strategies.

Are you in business for yourself? Do you work from home? Working for yourself and running your own business is a fantastic and challenging experience. You can wake up exhilarated to begin your day and go to bed feeling overwhelmed and mentally exhausted. The key to business success is to maintain a positive, yes you can do it, mindset.

I have worked from home for the last ten years. 2002 to be exact. It has it’s rewards and it’s challenges. Read my 5 powerful mind success business building strategies below to help create a positive mind set.

Self Development Skills can be developed and increased.

The beauty about Skills is you can increase the skills. Like a muscle the more you work on it the bigger or stronger it gets. There is a book called Talent is over rated. I so believe in this saying. Michael Jordan has some talent but he is not the greatest basket Ball player on his talent alone. He worked on and developed skills.

The difference between the $100,000 a year earner and the million dollar a year earner, SKILLS.

SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE Leaders plus 3

1) PERSONAL USE

Seven Habits # 1 is Personal use, A Highly Effective Leaders needs to be your best customer. Develop belief in the products by committing to use each daily. This is a business of duplication. Your team will do what you do, so start by using the product. We highly recommend autoship to maximize your earning potential.

Do you want it BAD?

So many times we get excited about making a change in our life. I was talking to a new Realtor the other day and he said. ” There is to much competition, too many Realtors” I told him the same thing I will tell you. There is ALWAYS room for one more superstar. There is room for one more internet marketing guru one more top income earner in Network Marketing, always room for one more real estate superstar. You want to know how I know this? Because most people will not do what it takes to win at that level. 70% will not do anything, but maybe show up, 25% will do just enough to get by and 4% will do what it takes to win and 1% or less will become superstars. That is true in any area of business and sports.

What’s the difference between the $1000 a year earner and the 100k a year earner and the 100k a month earner? SKILLS.

It’s all about skills

The great thing about skills is they can be learned. Network marketing is not about talent. I have seen a lot of very talented people never make a dime in MLM. I have seen a lot of committed people make very little money. At least committed people will stay actively doing something until they figure it out or get lucky. And yes luck has a lot to do with it, but you make your luck with activity.

Have you heard the saying “potential minus commitment equals nothing” Read more

Have you ever talked to your brother-in-law or your brother and they explained all the reasons why Network Marketing doesn’t work. I bet they can explain reasons why a lot of things don’t work. That’s because he’s a loser.

Has he ever built a large network? If not, he’s the last person in the world you should be taking advice from.

Just because your Uncle John was in Amway for two months doesn’t make him an expert. And just because your cousins Billy Bob had a neighbor in one of those things for two weeks five years ago and they never made any money, doesn’t qualify them to teach you about success.

Most of us have someone that has told us time and time again that no one makes money at Netwark Marketing. As bad as this sounds, the fact is that most MLMers learn how to stay away from Uncle Herb and cousins Pookie and Ray-Ray. That’s the easy part for most. After the first couple times with them it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out- just don’t go near them. Read more

I’m reading the book Three Feet From Gold. Great book. On page 32 I read – Never make a major decision in a valley. What? I thought. I read on.

Most people in relationships and business will hit a wall or go through a major set back in their life or business then quit or make a change.

I started thinking about how many times in my business I hit a wall and wanted to quit or find a new company.

I see now why so many people quit their business or jump to a new company only to jump again and again. You will hit a wall, everyone does. But when you do hit that wall you must keep on keep-in on to get through the valley.

The valleys create high levels of emotion and no one can make a good decision when it’s based on fear or disappointment.

How do you keep yourself from making major decisions in the valley? Read more

Slight changes don’t Do a 180: Stay Focused and Committed

Sometimes when things aren’t going the way we think they should, when your working hard and not getting the results you think you should be getting, then you need to step back and take a look at what could be missing, or better yet have someone you trust take a look at your method and get their input.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting to get different results. But just because your not getting the results you think you should be getting that does not mean what your doing it wrong. Most of the time if you just change one thing everything you’re doing will change. Maybe you need to change what you are saying or how you are saying it.

Slight changes will get you there faster.

For example: The space shuttle on the way to the moon needs to make slight corrections along the way. If it’s off just a fraction it could end up at a completely different location. Slight corrections are very important in business as well as on space flight. It’s better to make slight corrections along the way than every time you get frustrated stopping what you are doing or stop and start doing something totally different.

If you stop to do a 180 you are now not going in a forward direction, but by doing slight changes you will still be moving in a forward direction.
One time I was making cold calls and was not getting good results I talked to my mentor about changing my method of operation he asked what I was saying. He gave me a few suggestions and I added about 6 words to what I was saying and that changed everything. Remember slight changes are better then completely changing your game plan.

In Network Marketing / MLM / Affiliate Marketing, I see people getting frustrated with the way their business is going so they start thinking it’s their business and switch to a new company. Then, they get frustrated and switch again. After about three to four different MLMs and five to eight years have gone by they quite the business totally. If they would have picked one company and stayed focused and committed to it, In five to seven years they would be making really good money. There are peeks and valleys in this business. Don’t make major decisions in a valley. That’s where most people make a mistake. No matter what business you’re in they all have a season of expanding and contracting. It’s part of the business. With new companies coming and going every day and all the HYPE out there, it’s very easy to get confused. 75% of all new companies will not make it past three years. So Stay focused and committed. Stick to your daily method of operation and make slight changes along the way and before you know it you will be making money in the six figures in a year, a month or a week.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste-so don’t. Your mind is like a computer garbage in garbage out, why don’t more people do affirmations? I think personal affirmations read to yourself over and over every day is one of the biggest underestimated success principles. I have read affirmations to myself for many years. I change my affirmations all the time depending on what season of life I’m in.

A few things about affirmations that need to be observed

The affirmation needs to be in the present tense such as: I have this or that, I am, my life is this or that way

The affirmation needs to be specific. If you’re not specific you may end up at the wrong place such as I drive a yellow 2005 Lotus Esprit. In the summer of 2011 I’m spending 10 days in Cabo at the ?? resort.

They need to be read every day three times a day. First thing when you get up, at lunch time and just before you go to bed. Remember it takes 28 days to become a habit.

Record your affirmations so you can listen to them as you fall asleep. You have to start believing in yourself. Afterall, you listen to yourself all the time in the negative. You have to train yourself to speak and listen to yourself in the positive.

Here are just a few I use

I am special, God made me special, I am one in a million, I have talents and gift that no other have, I am a miracle

I am a go getter, Every day I do what it takes to be a millionaire

I make a million dollars a year

I love my wife Kari, she is a gift to me and I tell her every day how much I love her

I talk to people every day and people like what I have to say. I listen to them with sincere interest in them. It’s very easy for me to meet new people. I like meeting new people.

I’m in the best business opportunity ever and now is the best time in history to build a network marketing business. Everyone I talk to want to know what I’m doing. They all want to know about my business and how to get involved. I even have people calling me to tell them about my opportunity. Everywhere I turn people are looking for opportunity to make money and I have the best opportunity for them.

I take full advantage of every opportunity that comes my way.

I am a winner.

I love my life and I’m thankful to be alive.

Share with us some of your affirmations that you are using or have used in the past.